MAIN PRACTICE AREAS
Patents
Trade Secrets
Licensing & Business Strategies
Litigation & Enforcement
BIO
Steve Czajkowski is a well-regarded attorney with more than 15 years of intellectual property experience, primarily in patent preparation and prosecution. Steve's practice focuses on patent, trademark, and trade secret matters, including securing IP protection, counseling on IP strategy with regard to infringement, invalidity, freedom to operate, and due diligence, and providing litigation support with regard to IP disputes.
Steve has significant experience in drafting and prosecuting provisional, design, and utility patent applications for domestic and foreign clients in technical subject matter for electrical and mechanical areas, including communications, artificial intelligence and machine learning, antenna systems, cellular and data networks, network devices, computer software, electronic devices, e-commerce, marine systems, and medical device fields.
Steve also has an industry background in wireless communications and electric power systems and has also participated in all aspects of patent litigation lawsuits, from complaint stage to jury trial, as well as appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
CERTIFICATION
Registered Patent Attorney, United States Patent and Trademark Office
BAR ADMISSIONS
Pennsylvania, 2010
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2013
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2010
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1993 J.D.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Law Fellows Scholar
Order of the Coif
Law Review: Head Note and Comment Editor and
Member, University of Pittsburgh Law Review
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1990 B.S.
Major: Chemistry
With Honors
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Allegheny County Academy of Trial Lawyers